In ancient literature, young women are portrayed as the water bearers and are often encountered at the community well. They draw water and serve their families, visitors and flocks.

The Old Testament tells how Rebecca, Rachel and Zipporah were all discovered at their wells as the perfect wives for Isaac, Jacob and Moses respectively.

Then, there was Miriam’s Well, which she carried for 40 years of wandering in the desert following the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt. According to Greek mythology, Naiads are female spirits or nymphs, presiding over fresh water sources.

Ancient literature frequently describes water-bearing women carrying clay jugs…

Hard to believe, but fresh drinking water is a rare commodity…and is becoming ever more scarce. You may ask, “How can this be, when about 71% of the Earth is covered by water?!”

An impressive 96.5% of the Earth’s water is held by the oceans and seas, but seawater contains about 3.5% salinity (mostly sodium chloride). This quantity of salt is too high for the human kidneys to process and eliminate, leaving a dangerous surplus of salt in the body. The result of consumption will be dehydration and eventually death.

This is why the world has been racing to find…

Headlines earlier this year announced that Sacramento, California had its first rain-free February in history, and San Francisco had its first dry February in 156 years!

Winter is supposed to be the rainy season in California, and yet January was a dry month for these cities, too. Sacramento and San Francisco only received 30% and 60% of their normal rainfall in January, respectively, and this spells trouble.

Sadly, the start of summer 2020 is beginning to look like a repeat of the severe drought conditions that plagued California for five years starting in 2012 and again in 2019. According to…

Did you know that a person is mostly made up of water? About 60% of the average adult’s total weight is pure water (‎‎1,‎ 4). Most significantly, the heart is composed of 73% water, and the brain and lungs are more than 80% water (‎1).

And water plays a fundamental role in keeping every part of your body healthy. In particular, the demands of the brain are most significant because the neurons of which it is built are more sensitive to oxygen deprivation and level of toxins than other kinds of cells. (‎2). Brain activity generates much more heat than other parts of the body, making the flow of blood around the brain an essential mechanism for cooling. …

Every Thursday, the US Drought Monitor releases a map to illustrate areas of drought throughout the country[1].

The problem of drought in the United States is serious enough that it must be monitored weekly.

Drought is caused by a lack of precipitation, as well as by warmer temperatures that expedite evaporation. Both are likely worsened by climate change.

Cape Town: The World’s First Developed City to “Run Out” of Water!

In 2007, the writing was on the wall: Cape Town, South Africa’s beautiful southern city on the sea, was coming close to “Day Zero”, the day when the municipal water would be turned-off for 4 million people. South Africa’s National Department of Water and Sanitation cautioned local government in Cape Town that declining rainfall and increasing water demand would force the city to provide itself with new water sources by 2015.

Taking the advice to heart, the city installed new water infrastructure, reduced demand and investigated new sources…